Speakers

Plenary Speakers
Ilse Cleeves (Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Andrea Isella (Rice University)
Sebestian Heinz (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Alex Pope (University of Massachusetts)
Dimitrios Psaltis (University of Arizona)
Karin Sandstrom (University of California, San Diego)

Invited Speakers

Exoplanets, the Solar System and the origins of Stars, Planets and Life

 Galaxy Evolution Mechanisms Black Holes & Transient Phenomena
SOC Chair: Brenda Matthews SOC Chair: Caitlin Casey SOC Chair: Laura Chomiuk
Fred Adams (University of Michigan) Aaron Evans (UVa / NRAO) Chris Belczynski (Warsaw University)
Fred Ciesla (University of Chicago) Steve Finkelstein (U of Texas Austin) Alessandra Corsi (Texas Tech University)
Imke de Pater (UC, Berkeley) Jackie Hodge (Leiden Observatory) Shri Kulkarni (Caltech)
Courtney Dressing (UC, Berkeley) Phil Hopkins (Caltech) Casey Law (UC, Berkeley)
Jonathan Fortney (UCSC) Allison Kirkpatrick (Yale University) Maura McLaughlin (WVU)
Gregg Hallinan (Caltech) Pat McCarthy (Giant Magellan Telescope) Brian Metzger (Columbia University)
Alan Jackson (University of Toronto) Anne Medling (Caltech) Jerome Orosz (San Diego State University)
JJ Kavelaars (NRC) Jean Turner (UCLA) Rich Plotkin (ICRAR-Curtin University)
Gijs Mulders (University of Arizona) Fabian Walter (Max Planck) Tony Readhead (Caltech)
Laura Perez (NRAO) Dominika Wylezalek (ESO) Elena Rossi (Leiden Observatory)
Yancy Shirley (University of Arizona) Michael Rupen (NRC Canada)
Andrew Siemion (UC, Berkeley) Jonelle Walsh (Texas A&M University)
Jonathan Williams (University of Hawaii)

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